Principal SOC Architect, AI Accelerators (Multiple Locations

Qualcomm

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San Diego, Ca,Us, US Posted 43 days ago $172,800–$304,900 / year
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TL;DR

Qualcomm Technologies is seeking a senior SoC architect with extensive experience in data center security, reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS), and virtualization to join their team working on cutting-edge AI products for the datacenter market. The ideal candidate will engage with customers and original design manufacturers to analyze current AI server deployments and define hardware and software requirements at various levels from card to full rack. Key responsibilities include designing enhancements for next-generation AI product deployment, conducting reliability analysis of systems across different scales, implementing techniques for improved availability, supporting multiple clients using virtual machines on a single platform, and ensuring robust security measures such as confidential computing. The role requires in-depth knowledge of data center operations including telemetry, power management, cooling, lifecycle management, and familiarity with scale-up and scale-out architectures. Preferred candidates have experience with Server SOC security, RAS infrastructure definition, PCIe protocol expertise, Ethernet protocols for error recovery and virtualization, and collaboration skills to work closely with product marketing teams and customers in defining comprehensive requirements.

Skills

RAS Virtualization Security PCIe Ethernet Confidential_Compute OCP_Security_Forum CI/CD Python PostgreSQL Kubernetes AWS Terraform Docker Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Analyze trends in data center security, RAS, and virtualization through customer engagements.
  • Define hardware and software requirements for AI server deployments.
  • Architect enhancements necessary for deploying next-generation AI products.
  • Design SOC architecture focusing on reliability analysis at card, server, and rack levels.
  • Implement techniques to improve system availability and mitigate failures.
  • Support multiple clients using VMs on the same hardware platform.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in hardware design, testing, and commercialization.
  • In-depth knowledge of datacenter security, RAS, virtualization, telemetry, power management, cooling, lifecycle, and deployments.
  • Experience working with scale-up and scale-out architectures.
  • Master's degree or equivalent in Engineering or related field.
  • Ability to work effectively in a high-caliber international/multi-site team.

Market check

Salary context

This $172,800–$304,900 range sits above 68% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$183,900–$262,400

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$184,900–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.

Qualcomm currently has 569 open roles on FindRole.

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